Ah, but the first time you hear your little one say your parental name, or “wuv you,” well, you indeed feel like you own the world.
Sending you all of the super gluey adhesive wishes I have. Best of luck!
I’m sending you best wishes that everything goes extremely well, that you have a happy and healthy pregnancy and that next year finds you with one or two little miracles!
Things haven’t changed much for some people, as a lot still do the progesterone in oil shots in the derrier. Luckily I didn’t have to do this, for which I am very glad! Oh, and the success rates are a lot better. My clinic has a 50% success rate (although it is one of the top clinics in the country), but 30-35% is common (this is for the under 35 age group).
Strangely enough, I haven’t found those two weeks too bad. I think that after going through the active part of treatment, I had a kind of fatalism - what was going to be will be. Plus, having been through IVF, I have realised that, for me at least, deciding to do IVF was way harder than actually doing IVF. I could do it again if I had to. That helped.
Still, I can’t really believe that it worked. I think I may still be in shock a little and waiting for it to sink in. From talking to a couple of people, though, this apparently is entirely normal!
I’m late to the party, but just had to say congrats! My IVF baby just had her first birthday last month. I wish you were getting a beta so we could obsess about how many beans you have! Oh well, guess we’ll have to wait for that first ultrasound.
For me the 2WW was hard, but waiting for that first ultrasound at ~6 weeks was much worse! But once I saw that flickering heart…wow.